The Library Quotes
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“If she'd realised the last time she was hugged was significant she would have paid more attention, committed it to memory so she could recall the sensations at will for the many times since, when all she had needed had been for someone to hold her.”
― The Library
― The Library
“Dog are awesome. They don't care if you're clever or not; they just like to hang out with you”
― The Library
― The Library
“Every book is a key that unlocks another world, leads us down the path of a different life and offers the chance to explore an unexpected adventure. Every one is a gift of either knowledge, entertainment or pure escapism and goodness knows we all need that from time to time.”
― The Library
― The Library
“She wasn’t one for offering false hope, only practical solutions.”
― The Library
― The Library
“She’d been happy and she’d been loved by a good man. She’d lived a life. All very long ago now though. All that was left were shadows of happiness that had lingered briefly before disappearing like smoke in the breeze.”
― The Library
― The Library
“Books provided a secret door to escape through – something she had often been grateful for in her life. She’d been grateful of the library too. Many a time she’d needed somewhere safe and quiet to run to and the library had never let her down.”
― The Library
― The Library
“Some people don't see anyone from one week to the next apart from at the library. This is a lifeline for those people.”
― The Library
― The Library
“book is a key that unlocks another world, leads us down the path of a different life and offers the chance to explore an unexpected adventure. Every one is a gift of either knowledge, entertainment or pure escapism and goodness knows we all need that from time to time.”
― The Library
― The Library
“Books are such an underrated essential. Every book is a key that unlocks another world, leads us down the path of a different life and offers the chance to explore an unexpected adventure. Every one is a gift of either knowledge, entertainment or pure escapism and goodness knows we all need that from time to time.”
― The Library
― The Library
“Living with an addict isn’t easy.”
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― The Library
“She calls alcoholism a disease that haunts the soul.”
― The Library
― The Library
“I spend my time desperately trying to fill my day until one morning I don’t wake up.”
― The Library
― The Library
“The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary.”
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― The Library
“She always added vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to her wash, dried her clothes on the line whenever she could and used little bags of thyme, rosemary, and cloves instead of mothballs.”
― The Library
― The Library
“Friends aren’t merely the tumbleweed of faces that roll in and out of your life. Friends are the ones you connect with and who last a lifetime. You’ll pass a million people on your path and just a few will be worth spending time with.”
― The Library
― The Library
“Most of all Maggie missed the hugs. It was a peculiar quirk of polite modern society that without a partner or offspring in your life you were denied that one key comfort that humans require – the need for physical contact. An embrace can be on many different levels but the basic sensation of emotional and physical warmth given freely by another is most noticeable when it is no longer there.”
― The Library
― The Library
“Books provided a secret door to escape through – something she had often been grateful for in her life.”
― The Library
― The Library